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TIL Native Americans descend from three migrations from Siberia

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oRkw7 TIL East Timor has the highest percentage of Catholics per total population in world at 98%, after the Vatican city.
OEDg TIL Armstrong’s Limit is the altitude above which no human can survive without pressurization, even if using an oxygen mask. Water in the lungs will boil at body temperature, due to the reduced pressure.
rRJMe TIL about drunken boxing, founded by Liu Qizan, a murderer seeking refuge at a monastery who supposedly beat 30 monks so soundly while drunk they made his form a legitimate style
by90 TIL the first native Americans to help the pilgrims,named Samoset and Squanto already knew English before meeting the settlers.
6Egdm TIL that despite spending half his career in the saddle, Clint Eastwood is allergic to horses.